Information for Teachers and Parents

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa - greetings, greetings to you all! My name is KoiKiwi - "Koi" is "smart" in Maori, one of the official languages of New Zealand, the land of Kiwis.

KoiKiwi is a website for children and adults that care about the environment! We have compiled a set of games: action games, puzzle games, trivia and other fun games - which all are focused on ecology, the environment and the future of our planet.

We hope you enjoy our website! Please spread the word, add links from your own site or from your school's site to KoiKiwi.com, and let your colleagues and friends know!

whakawhetai koe - thank you :-) ---- KoiKiwi

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The big environment and ecology trivia

This game would be loved by kids as it is simple and relaxing. It develops the following skills: (1) awareness to rubbish cleaning and types of rubbish (2) mouse and keyboard coordination. Enter the trivia challenge now!Ages: 10-100yrs Difficulty: Easy to Hard

Catch the rubbish

This game would be loved by kids as it is simple and relaxing. It develops the following skills: (1) awareness to rubbish cleaning and types of rubbish (2) mouse and keyboard coordination. [play]

Ages: 6 to 10yrs Difficulty: Easy

Shoot down greenhouse gases!

This game is lots of fun and action, it is an environmental education version of the old fashioned popular game of "asteroids". It develops the following skills: (1) awareness to global warming and greenhouse gases (2) getting familiared with specific greenhouse gases molecules and their chemical composition (3) mouse and keyboard coordination. [play]

Ages: 6 to 10yrs Difficulty: Medium

3d Pollutant Maze

This game is not only smart but also metaphorically developing the awareness of the player to the need of our planet to get out of the rubbish maze: mazes are changing by level and are made of rubbish piles, while the player is trying to get Earth out of the rubbish. It develops the following skills: (1) awareness to the need to clean our planet (2) IQ skills and maily abstract-reasoning (3) Concentration (4)problem solving [play]

Ages: 6 to 99yrs Difficulty: Medium

Shoot down plastic bottles!

This game is lots of fun and action, it is an environmental education version of the old fashioned popular game of "asteroids" only that instead of asteroids, the player is shooting plastic bottles. It develops the following skills: (1) awareness to impact of plastic bottles on our planet (2) keyboard coordination and fun. [play]

Ages: 6 to 13yrs Difficulty: Medium

Environmental Memory Game

This game is the classical memory game, could be played to many levels and includes environmental categories: wind turbines, greenhouse gases and recycling. The advanced level can be fairly difficult. It develops the following skills: (1) knowledge of types of wind turbines, recycling facilities and molecules of greenhouse gases (2) IQ skills and especially abstract reasoning, visual comparison, memory, attention to details (3) concentration [play]

Ages: 6 to 99yrs Difficulty: Medium

Ecological Puzzles

A classical puzzle game, could be played to many levels - up to 100 puzzle pieces - and includes environmental categories: wind turbines, power dams, polution, animals and recycling. It develops the following skills: (1) knowledge of types of wind turbines, recycling facilities, the face of pollution, and how power dams look (2) IQ skills and especially lateral thinking, visual comparison, memory, attention to details (3) concentration [play]

Ages: 6 to 99yrs Difficulty: Medium

KoiKiwi in the recycling boxes

A version of the three coins under a cup game, only that here KoiKiwi is hiding in a box between three boxes that get shuffled. Lots of fun! It develops the following skills: (1) Concentration and fast movement tracking (2) IQ skills especially Memory (3) some awareness to recycling boxes [play]

Ages: 10 to 99yrs Difficulty: Medium

Ecological sliding puzzle

Lots of fun with a different type of puzzle - a sliding puzzle, a bit harder than drag and drop puzzle and includes three difficulty levels (3x3, 4x4 and 5x5) and many pictures. It develops the following skills: (1) Concentration and memory (2) IQ skills especially abstract reasoning and thinking ahead (3) exposure to unique ecological images [play]

Ages: 6 to 99yrs Difficulty: Medium

Forest rubbish jumper

This is a really cool game for kids, we converted the forest jumper game (where the player collects fruits) to an environmentally aware game: here the jumper collects rubbish from the forest: plastic bottles, tins, plastic cups, rubbish bags and hazards signs. It develops the following skills: (1) Awareness to the need to keep the firests clean! (2) The game includes a series of formal signs of hazards: radioactive materials, radiation, magntic hazards, poison and others - so the student can be familiared with those (3) coordination and fun [play]

Ages: 6 to 16yrs Difficulty: Medium

Fight forest fires

A very creative and unique game where the player needs to extinguish forest fires. It develops the following skills: (1) Awareness to forest fires and the need to protect the forest (2) coordination and fun [play]

Ages: 6 to 16yrs Difficulty: Medium

The Pond

A very unique and interesting game where the player needs to combine a drop of liquid with the matching elements - find out how or let the kids find the formula! It develops the following skills: (1) Awareness to the need of clean water and reasons for water pollution (2) IQ skills, lateral thinking, asbtract-reasoning (3) coordination and fun [play]

Ages: 6 to 16yrs Difficulty: Medium

Flying bird recycling rubbish

In this game the player needs to collect recycling symbols while flying in the forest and getting away from hazards - a great way to develop awareness to recycling as well as to get familiared to the different recycling symbols. It develops the following skills: (1) Awareness to the need of recycling, in the context of keeping the forest green (2) knowledge of all sorts of recycling symbols (3) visual comparison, coordination and fun [play]